On the morning of October 15, 2016, in Smiths Station, Alabama, 38-year-old Erica Kristine Murphy was shot and killed when her estranged husband, Daniel Richard Murphy, forced his way into a home on Lee Road 248. A male who tried to intervene was shot in the hand while escaping the house with a child who was present; the child was not physically harmed.

Deputies from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office arrived and a prolonged standoff followed. Daniel Murphy barricaded himself inside, then came out armed and opened fire at officers. He was shot and killed by deputies. Investigators described the sequence as a murder-suicide, identifying Daniel Richard Murphy as the sole perpetrator in Erica Murphy’s death. The injured man received treatment for his wound.

Who knew Erica or was in that neighborhood that morning and might have information about what led up to the violence?